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- Significant Record / Very Rare / Vagrant
- care required in the identification process, as confusion with similar species is likely - quality photographs required. ID pointers: Distinguished from all similar species by the broad and rounded forewing and the faint scalloping on both the fringes for the forewing and hind-wing.
Distribution: (Last record: 2023 ) - Very rare and few records in a year. Last recorded in Derbyshire in 2023 – In 1986 it was thought to be extinct in Derbyshire, but since then there were a number of records in the 1990’s. and it continues to be recorded in small numbers each year. One trapped in Grinlow Woods, Buxton on 10th July 2021. Latest records of 4 in 2023, a daytime observation, in a small plantation at Fernilee Reservoir, a specimen trapped in a garden trap at Cromford and 2 recorded from a garden on 2 seperate dates from Buxton. Remains a rare species in the county.
Forewing: 18-26mm
Last Recorded Year: 2023
Last Recorded By: Not Recorded
Last Recorded General Area: Not Recorded
No First Date Information Recorded
IMAGES BELOW: Photo by kind permission of ©Rowan Wakefield© – Grinlow Woods, Buxton 10/07/2021
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